Tuesday, 22 November 2011

The political class and corporate class are one

On a day when no one is arguing seriously against the condemnation by the High Pay Commission of the naked corporate greed by the parasitic bloodsuckers who siphon the profits from your savings and pensions to fund their lavish lifestyles, only the Guardian seems to have got it right on the Spanish election. And the preceding paragraph doesn't make me some sort of Trot - I'm still the One-Nation Conservative I always have been. But the biggest threat to my core ideologies, to Adam Smith, laissez-faire capitalism and a Burkean Britain, comes not from the left but from an unholy Statist alliance between the political class and the corporate class.

And they will fall together. The scrawls of 'Vote Here' on the ATM machines in Spain, and the almost universal cries of 'they don't represent us' and 'they're all the same' are not manifestations of anarcho-trotskyist protest but of the Wisdom of Crowds.

70's and 80's workers/unions scourge of shareholders. 90's and this decade greedy directors/managers scourge of shareholders the greatest rip-off being massive dilution of shareholders through over generous option schemes unconnected to performance.Corporate greed is the great enemy of growth. Directors' real remuneration has doubled in last decade. Average earnings have been stagnant hence no sustainable growth is possible. Lifestyles maintained by borrowing on house and card.This slow-no growth phase will last many years.

People are arguing seriously against the condemnation by the "High Pay Commission" of the "naked corporate greed by the parasitic bloodsuckers who siphon the profits from your savings and pensions to fund their lavish lifestyles". And rightly too:

Ed P. & Readwald.A very similar unholy allince exists in the USSA, especially where thet "Tea Party" the "Republicans" and other righ-wing nutters (Koch / Exxon etc) exists.Come 2016 it might not turn out too well.( I think the Rethuglicans have screwed it so badly, that Obama will win next year )

Anonymous( AKA too scared to use a name )What leftie?Moi?Ever heard the phrase: to quoque ??Ever heard or seen me praise those religious murderers Stalin, pol Pot & Mao?No.Hitler was (very) right-wing.They were all AUTHORITARIAN.Which is much more important, in many ways, than "left" and "right".That, of course, is one reason Adolf and the RC church cosied up to each other so much .....And, also the Nazi-Soviet pact ... which is being replayed now, every time some group of real left-wing nutters cosy up to the jihadists.

Now, keep off the personal insults, please, and present us with an argument.Or go forth and multiply, OK?

Anonymous makes the assumption that I am left-wing.Which is untrue.He also lies.Hitler was in no way left-wing.I suggest he (she?) reads some history.Oh and look at the close co-operation between the NSDAP and the Catholic church, as opposed to the relgious war fought between the competing false religions of catholicism and comunism.

More personal insults Greg. tch tch. I thought you were against that sort of thing.

Greg Tingey: "Hitler was in no way left-wing."

Given we agree, Hitler and Stalin were both totalitarian. Both ruthlessly eradicated free will and free expression, both slaughtered millions of innocent people for ideological reasons.

From this perspective, the extremes of the left right continuum isn't a line that stretches to infinity in opposite directions, rather each extreme follows an arc that meets where both ideologies are unified in State Terror.

Don't know what the Catholic church has to do with the price of fish, but there you go.

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